Review – Stephen K Amos: The Spokesman
The Spokesman is the latest stand-up effort from British comic, Stephen K Amos. Sadly, it feels almost as though Amos has run out of material.
Category: Comedy
Review – Burlesque Beauties in Next to Nothing
All in all it was an entertaining show, but tits and ass usually is. In this case however the aforementioned tits and asses belonged to some very smokin’ hot and talented ladies.
Review – Marcel Lucont’s Cabaret Fantastique
Marcel Lucont masks his comedic material via a French caricature. It’s like watching Gabriel Gaté not cook anything.
Review – Georgie Carroll: Nurse Case Scenario
Georgie Carroll wants us to know that, when it matters, nurses are very caring and serious professionals. The other ninety percent of the time, though, they giggle and they giggle a lot.
Review – Dave Bloustien: Social Contract Redux
In The Social Contract – Redux, Dave Bloustein recounts his all too personal experience with a comedy show gone horribly wrong; so wrong, in fact, that he wound up in court for not being funny.
Review – Cartoobs and Other Typos with your host First Dog on the Moon
If you aren’t familiar with First Dog on the Moon (or FD in Internet parlance) as a political satirist and cartoonist then you’re probably part of the problem…
Review – Abandoman
Abandoman is an entirely improvised show, powered by the audience, their stories and the objects in their pockets and handbags.
Review – In Defence of Hipsters
This is a silly show, but the stories are straight from the heart, the laughter is genuine and you’ll get sucked right in to the life of professional hipster Cobi Smith.
Review – Sammy J: Potentially!
Comedy shows have framing devices. It’s a fact of life: you need something to bookend your show, a big revelatory note on which you can end the night, to show you’re a human being and not just a joke machine.
Review – Dave Thornton: Tall & Pointy
Every wondered about what it is to be a male, a metrosexual male, in a women’s world? Well that’s what Dave Thornton questioned and explored with his audience, on one hot Adelaide night.
Review – Aaron Nobes Theories
Aaron Nobes knows a thing or two. He knows Facebook’s “Like” button is the only bit of glue holding society together. He knows which brand of tinfoil offers the best protection against government mind-control.
Review – Radiohead Redux
The danger of basing a comedy show around pop culture, and Willis appeared well aware of this, is that English references may not translate to Australian audiences.
Review – Trying Hard
It was a brave choice for him to start the show with deliberately-bad material and only gradually let out his best stand-up, but he can sell even his worst one-liners in the delivery
Review – Greg Fleet in The Boy That Cried Sober
It is a brave individual that chooses to base a stand up comedy show upon the tragedy of heroin addiction.
